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> I regularly use it for menial tasks Like random formal letter to AI? Maybe it is a societal problem more than a technical one if we all hate writing and read

> I regularly use it for menial tasks Like random formal letter to AI? Maybe it is a societal problem more than a technical one if we all hate writing and reading these. I don’t get the search documentation part. It has obvious blind spots on many things and hallucinate on others.

sigmoid10 3y ago
>Like random formal letter to AI? No, I'm talking about things like writing SQL queries (even complex ones), CMake files, Docker configs or plotting stuff in Python. Of course, if you're not already an expert in these things, you'll have a hard time distinguishing useful replies from hallucinations - that's why I said it's mostly for senior devs. Without expert knowledge, you will likely not be able to benefit from it in its current state. But if you have that and know how to write efficient queries, it can easily up your productivity by a factor of 10 (i.e. going back and forth for 6 minutes with GPT4 to make it get your requirements can save you an hour of work looking through documentations).
- josephg 3y ago
  10x seems like a stretch, but I agree. I have a chatgpt window open most of my workday now too. "Hey chatgpt - help me write this mathematical equation in latex. Hey chatgpt - give me an example nodejs program that reads a line-delimited JSON file without loading the whole thing in memory first". "Hey chatgpt - What are the popular & good python libraries for drawing an SVG scatter plot of some data? Give me some example code for each library."
  - sigmoid10 3y ago
    It depends on what you're doing of course. With your example queries I'd also expect a lower boost, but the benefits should still be there. Where it really shines is if you already know exactly what you want and how you want it and you merely need someone to write it in code in a common language.

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> I regularly use it for menial tasks Like random formal letter to AI? Maybe it is a societal problem more than a technical one if we all hate writing and read

by hartator 3y ago

sigmoid10 3y ago
>Like random formal letter to AI? No, I'm talking about things like writing SQL queries (even complex ones), CMake files, Docker configs or plotting stuff in Python. Of course, if you're not already an expert in these things, you'll have a hard time distinguishing useful replies from hallucinations - that's why I said it's mostly for senior devs. Without expert knowledge, you will likely not be able to benefit from it in its current state. But if you have that and know how to write efficient queries, it can easily up your productivity by a factor of 10 (i.e. going back and forth for 6 minutes with GPT4 to make it get your requirements can save you an hour of work looking through documentations).
- josephg 3y ago
  10x seems like a stretch, but I agree. I have a chatgpt window open most of my workday now too. "Hey chatgpt - help me write this mathematical equation in latex. Hey chatgpt - give me an example nodejs program that reads a line-delimited JSON file without loading the whole thing in memory first". "Hey chatgpt - What are the popular & good python libraries for drawing an SVG scatter plot of some data? Give me some example code for each library."
  - sigmoid10 3y ago
    It depends on what you're doing of course. With your example queries I'd also expect a lower boost, but the benefits should still be there. Where it really shines is if you already know exactly what you want and how you want it and you merely need someone to write it in code in a common language.